Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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You have the power to decide which technologies are relevant to you. For example, you can just pass on Snapchat and Twitter. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life. And that consumer power has always been there. More than ten years ago, I decided paying for checks to write out and then pay for other things was a useless system I wanted to no part of. Since then, digital payment technologies have blossomed and there's no going back. I do, however, accept checks. [Please make them...
WAITSBURG-When the Girls Scouts of Waitsburg learned that the Lewis & Clark Trail State Park was the only park in the state without a flagpole, they set out to do something about it. The local service unit spent about a year-and-a-half raising approximately $2300 to purchase a pole for the park. For the last four years, troops from Dayton, Waitsburg and Walla Walla have camped out out at the state park. Last weekend's campout was made even more notable with the installation of the newly donated...
WAITSBURG-Sunny weather and bright skies prevailed for the Waitsburg Livestock Show and Fair this past Saturday. The fairgrounds were packed to the brim with pigs, ducks, chickens, goats, sheep, artists and, of course, cats. Festivities got underway shortly after 9 a.m. with the livestock judging contest, followed shortly thereafter by the FFA tractor driving exhibit and rabbit competition. Seamus House and Koby Harris from the Waitsburg FFA took first and second place in tractor driving for...
WAITSBURG-The Touchet River is a 55-mile tributary of the Walla Walla River and in its valley sprawls endless hills and fields of wheat end-capped by barns and mills. Our local landscape boasts breath- taking views that draw tourists and gasps, but is also seemingly difficult to capture in photograph. Especially when taking pictures as passengers from the highway at speed rendering every shot at least a little blurry. Without specialist equipment such as a drone, one might think it is...
WAITSBURG-Students from Mrs. Stephanie Hinchliffe's first grade class released salmon into the Touchet River on May 22, concluding this season of the Salmon in Schools project. Waitsburg, Dixie and Touchet elementary schools are among the newest participating schools, bringing the program's total roster to twelve. Waitsburg first graders are pioneers and, indeed, prototypes for the potential success of this program among younger students. The journey to the release began on Oct. 17 when Andrew...
WAITSBURG-All over town irises are in bloom, but none quite so plentiful as Bill Rodger's Secret Garden. Waitsburg's own photographer is changing the landscape by hand. Rodgers is in the process of moving his iris garden from a friend's horse pasture in College Place to an undisclosed location in Waitsburg. Irises are perennial plants, growing from creeping rhizomes (rhizomatous irises) or, in drier climates, from bulbs (bulbous irises). Rhizomes put out lateral shoots and adventitious roots at...
DAYTON-The annual Lewis & Clark walk departed from the Dayton Historic Depot on May 17, making strides toward community health for the thirteenth consecutive year. Public health nurse Estasia Collins helped sign in participants as Dayton residents united at the Depot as the festivities got underway. Program coordinator Chelsea Eaton discussed the route's history and made connections between Lewis & Clark's historic 1806 journey and the group's contemporary one. Walkers were given a safety...
WAITSBURG-Waitsburg Celebration Days brought out all the smiles. Seventy or more antique and vintage cars lined Preston Park Friday evening. The sunset historic ATV cruise departed from the fairgrounds and returned with a splash. Cruise organizers Denise and Andy Winnett; Allen and Karen Huwe; Louis and Marie Gagnon and crew led the way up the mountain and back for stunning views of the valley. Meanwhile, the Bonfire, Brats & Brews event was well attended with live music from biGfONT. Joy and...
DAYTON-May is National Foster Care Month, a time to celebrate and appreciate foster parents, family members, volunteers, mentors, policymakers, child welfare professionals, and other members of the community who help children and youth in foster care find permanent homes and connections. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has partnered with the Administration for Children & Families and the Children's Bureau to acknowledge the immense undertaking of safely caring for the needs of...
There it is. You’ve got a gadget, all new tech, fresh out of its box, it’s shiny, it’s sleek. Isn’t it amazing they can make these so small? That’s technology for you. As devices of all kinds become a staple in our everyday lives, so to are technical difficulties. Do you know what they call people who fix Apple computers? Geniuses. As if it isn’t troubling enough to require assistance at all, you go to a Genius Bar and for [at least] $250 they will troubleshoot and fix computer hang ups. Best B...
WALLA WALLA-Pioneer Park teemed with more life than usual as the Spring Fling got underway this weekend. Festivities began Friday evening with Fiddlesticks Stings and carried on through Mother's Day. Attendees were treated to a collection of rare and antique cars onsite beside the budding grounds. A wide selection of both food and wares vendors lined the path which lead to the Locati stages where live performances took place. The Walla Walla Spring Fling began six years ago when founders Liz...
WASHTUCNA-The Palouse River runs through a narrow cataract and drops 200 feet to a churning bowl. From there, the current moves swiftly, through a winding gorge of columnar basalt, to its southern end at the mighty Snake River. Carved more than 13,000 years ago, Palouse Falls is among the last active waterfalls on the Ice Age floods path. This natural wonder was named Washington's state waterfall in 2014, when the state Legislature passed a bill written by third, fourth and fifth graders of the...
WAITSBURG-Nancy's Dream Garden Center celebrated its Grand Opening this weekend with a raffle, tea, cookies and free samples of lotions. Susan Donegan, president of the Waitsburg Garden Club, has nothing but kind words for Nancy's. "I reached out to Doug and Janet at the beginning of March to discuss ordering plants from them for the Main Street Pots, which were planted on April 28th this year. They were easy to work with, were able to order almost everything we had planned to plant and once...
WALLA WALLA-If life is an art, Ikune Sawada is a master. Sawada is a painter and collector of fine ceramics. For many years he has also practiced bonsai tree gardening. Through the gate and down a path flanked by lamprocapnos spectabilis, also known as bleeding hearts for their flower petals' shape, the garden unfolds. Sawada and his partner, Neil Meitzler, before his passing in 2009, created the garden from scratch. Meitzler was a landscape painter of the Northwest School and curator at the...
WAITSBURG (AN TIR)-The Society for Creative Anachronism met once more at Preston Park for their annual Newcomer's Encampment. The setup of pavilions, tents and flags began Friday afternoon. Festivities kicked off at the Bardic Circle that evening. Bards and minstrels of the SCA performed a variety of music from the Middle Ages, from sprightly Renaissance dancing tunes to beautiful, medieval choral works. No Bardic Circle is complete without poems and storytelling around an open fire. The...
PORTLAND, OR to SPARTA, NJ-Mitchell Morrison sends greetings from White Sulphur Springs, MT. He is riding a bicycle across the U.S. for the sixth time. The expedition launched from Portland on April 9 and is going strong. Why ride a bicycle across the country alone? "I absolutely love seeing the spectacular beauty," shares Morrison. "I love chatting with the folks in the small towns and I love the adventure and challenge of it all!" "As part of my adventure, I am raising money for cancer researc...
WALLA WALLA-This past weekend in the shadow of the Whitman clock tower, time rewound for the 50th Annual Renaissance Faire. The word renaissance in French and English (rinascita in Italian) refers to a "rebirth" of art and culture and a revived interest in classical cultures. In the 14th century it meant a revived enthusiasm for Greek and Roman philosophy that had been lost, left unnoticed or was cast aside in the Middle Ages. Today, we revive the revival. Tournaments with violent outcomes were...
EARTH—Arbor Day falls on Fri., April 26, 2019. Celebrate by planting a tree or caring for one that could use some attention. There are several reasons for a tree to not look its best. Drought tends to cause leaf wilting, leaf scorch, stem dieback, and increased susceptibility to pests and diseases. Diseases vary depending upon the species of tree and the region of growth. Some of the most common diseases to look out for are Dutch Elm Disease, Dogwood Anthracnose, and Sudden Oak Death. Other r...
WAITSBURG-The tail end of the Tour of Walla Walla came whirring through Waitsburg Sunday. Athletes tackled high winds and adverse road conditions while spectators enjoyed the bright day bundled up coats and scarves. From the sidelines it's hard to tell who's riding what race. Using sophisticated software, the officials can cross-reference racers by their bib numbers, factor in finishing time bonuses and calculate winners. Tour of Walla Walla Race Results Men's Pro Cat 1/2 LINCOLN, Daniel #65...
One might assume that the facsimile, or fax as it came to be known, is a thing of the past. Faxes are obsolete technology from the days of screeching modems and are better relegated to the past along with floppy disks. If you're faxing in 2019, you might as well pull out a chisel and slab of limestone. Why not send a telegram? Or spend 6-8 weeks raising a homing pigeon. They fly between 600 and 800 miles a day. Surely that's faster and more rewarding than sending a fax. The idea of faxing today...
WAITSBURG & WALLA WALLA-The Tour of Walla Walla cycling weekend kicks off April 12-14. This is the 21st year of what has become a spring classic in the local road racing community. The competition consists of four stages, beginning with the Wilson Hollow time trial in which cyclists in eight categories race solo against the clock. This 6.8 mile circuit leaves from the Waitsburg Fairgrounds staging area heading east on Wilson Hollow Road. It begins with a short kicker, then settles into the...
WALLA WALLA-The Painting for Passage show debuted in the grand lobby of the Marcus Whitman hotel featuring the watercolor and acrylic paintings of Leigh Anne Adkins. Adkins' artworks favor the abstract expressionist style popularized by artists like Jackson Pollock and were at auction during the Spring Barrel Crush event. Collectors circled the bidding table to the gentle strummings of harpist Chelsea Carter. Carter's original composition, "Heavenly," filled the great hall right up to its...
Audiophiles rejoice, discount vinyl abounds WALLA WALLA-Hot Poop will join forces and lock tonearms in solidarity with independent record stores and worldwide music fans in celebrating the twelfth annual International Record Store Day this Sat., April 13 with an in-store performance by Diego and The Detonators at 2 p.m. Diego Romero studied music at McLoughlin High School in Milton-Freewater, Ore. and is a star graduate of the Walla Walla Symphony Free Rock Camp program. He provides vocals and...
Are you gearing up for egg hunt season? How's your egg coloring game? Do you dominate, or do you opt to leave it to the pros? As the wheel of the year turns we have an opportunity to revisit traditional activities, to keep what serves us and dump the rest. Pastel colors in spring are classic, we'll keep those. How we apply those colors to eggs, however, could use an update. Not to say that it isn't a great way to spend a day, if you have a day. Let's say dying eggs is right for you if you...
DAYTON-There's something new brewing behind the Village Shoppes on Main Street. Enthusiastic artist Jessica Griffin is opening the Dayton Creative Co-op, a mixed-use art studio with community at its core. "It's something I've been wanting to do for a really long time and I finally got the nerve to go through with it," Griffin said. The co-op's grand opening is all day Thurs., April 4 (10:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.) and will feature cake and two giveaways. Of the giveaways, a denim jacket, complete with...
